In this case, Windows will present you with a dialog box when you double-click the file.

The dialog box will ask you to select a program to open the file.

Remember how previous versions of Windows had an Internet Explorer icon on the desktop, and you could right-click it to quickly access the Internet Options screen?

It’s completely gone in Windows 7, but a geeky hack can bring it back.

Internet Explorer 11 is only available for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and is included in Windows 10 even though the Microsoft Edge browser is the default browser in Windows 10.

Are you facing and issue, where you find that your desktop icons are not working or showing in Windows 10/8/7?

When Windows needs to draw an icon, it uses the copy from the cache rather than retrieving the icon image from the original application file. UPDATE: With the release of Windows 8, Microsoft changed the rules of the game: the icon cache is no longer stored in the Icon file described below.